Education: Ploughing Fields of Eton

As every British schoolboy has often been told, the battle of Waterloo
was won on the playing fields of Eton. Last week Eton offered 15 acres
of its famed Playing Field called Agar's Plough to the British
Government for husbandry in the Grow-More-Food program. With respectful
gratitude the Buckinghamshire Agricultural Committee touched its
forelock and accepted.

For Eton's boys the war was proving rather a rag. They carried their
gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a
bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers
on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest...